Billionaire Taizo Son ditches Japan to start afresh in Singapore
Singapore
SINGAPORE may have just added a new tech billionaire, but it had to lure him from Japan first.
Taizo Son, who built his fortune on hit smartphone game Puzzle & Dragons, has relocated to the city-state from Tokyo and plans to invest US$100 million in South-east Asia within five years.
The younger brother of SoftBank Group Corp's founder said in Singapore on Monday that he had become frustrated by regulations in Japan as well as the country's education system. "I…
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